From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:25:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] repack: allow simultaneous packing and pruning
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610101423561.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <452BF8B3.5090305@tromer.org>



On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Eran Tromer wrote:
> 
> Too late: "git repack -a -d" already does it, in contradiction to its 
> manpage. It creates a new pack by following .git/refs, and then deletes 
> all old pack files.

That's very different.

That just means that you should not try to do two _concurrent_ repacks. 

> Don't run it on a shared repo, then. And grab a coffee while it runs.
> But why force leaf repositories to accumulate garbage?

Nobody forces that.

You can run "git prune" if you want to. But at least we know that "git 
prune" is unsafe.

			Linus